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His leg spin yielded ten wickets at 30. 60, with a best of 4 / 118 in the Fourth Test in Adelaide when he was given a heavy workload, totalling 58 overs, when Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller broke down during the match.
The Australian Test cricketer and rugby league player Ray Lindwall was born in Mascot.
The selectors were driven by the repeated discomfiture of England batsmen against the great Australian bowlers Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, but John Arlott suspected there was also a subconscious urge to " reflect public feeling, the national desire for a fast bowler, even an inexperienced one – anyone so long as he was fast ".
Press opinion was divided over Hutton's performance ; some critics, including the Australian bowlers, detected insecurity against fast bowling, particularly the bouncers with which Ray Lindwall and Miller targeted him.
He was bowled second ball by a yorker from Lindwall and England struggled to remain competitive throughout the match.
As captain, Hutton believed that the key to success was a strong pace attack, stemming from his experiences against Lindwall and Miller, which influenced his selection of several promising fast bowlers.
This was partly due to English perception of the short-pitched fast bowling of Australian pairing Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller as being hostile.
He was dismissed for a duck only once in Tests, lbw to Ray Lindwall in the 1st Test against Australia at Brisbane in 1951.
In 1996 he was posthumously included in the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the ten inaugural inductees along with Jack Blackham, Victor Trumper, Clarrie Grimmett, Bill Ponsford, Don Bradman, Bill O ' Reilly, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Dennis Lillee.
Harvey was the 12th man because of his fielding abilities, and spent a large proportion of time on the field due to an injury to pace spearhead Ray Lindwall.
Queensland's captain, the veteran paceman Ray Lindwall, was no longer an automatic Test selection.
In the last two Tests, Johnston conceded more than 100 runs in three of the four innings with the increased burden in his colleagues ' absence ; the only previous occasion when he had conceded a century of runs in an innings was in the First Test against England in 1948 when Lindwall broke down mid-match.
Prior to this, Depeiaza had never scored a first-class hundred and during the partnership he was hit on the chest numerous times by short balls from Keith Miller and Ray Lindwall, leading to a suggestion from the father of a team mate that he wear a piece of protective foam rubber around his chest.
Raymond Russell Lindwall MBE ( 3 October 1921 – 23 June 1996 ) was a cricketer who represented Australia in 61 Tests from 1946 to 1960.
A right-arm fast bowler of express pace, Lindwall was widely regarded as the greatest pace bowler of his era and one of the finest of all time.
Lindwall was known for his classical style, with a smooth and rhythmic run-up and textbook side-on bowling action, from which he generated his trademark outswinger which moved away late at high pace.
Lindwall was a fine all round cricketer ; he was a hard-hitting batsman who scored two centuries at Test level and often improved Australia's position with his lower order batting.
In 2000, Lindwall was named in the Australian Cricket Board's Team of the Century.
Lindwall was inspired in his childhood after watching England's Harold Larwood, the fastest bowler of the era, terrorise the Australian batsmen during the notorious Bodyline series of 1932 – 33 with short-pitched intimidatory bowling.
During his teenage years, Lindwall rose through the ranks of Sydney Grade Cricket at St. George under the tutelage of Test leg spinner Bill O ' Reilly, who was regarded as the finest bowler in the world at the time.
At the same time, Lindwall, a fine athlete, was playing for St. George Dragons in the first-grade of the New South Wales Rugby League as a full back.
With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, interstate cricket was cancelled and in 1943, Lindwall joined the army and served in New Guinea until 1945.
Lindwall brought up his maiden Test century in the Second Test and was the leading wicket-taker as Australia established its ascendancy in the post-war era.

Lindwall and determined
Lindwall was determined to enjoy himself, having recovered from his recent illness.

Lindwall and add
He taught Lindwall to add accuracy and variation to his raw speed.

Lindwall and Test
In the final Test, Hutton scored a century, batting through the first day to score 122 not out, his first Test century in Australia, despite another barrage from Lindwall and Miller.
With leading pacemen Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller breaking down in the match, Harvey bowled for only the third time in his Test career.
After supporting Lindwall in a 48-run partnership in the first innings of the Fourth Test, Johnston took 4 / 95 in the second innings, including three in the space of 16 runs.
In all, Johnston finished with 27 Test wickets at an average of 23. 33, equal to Lindwall.
In the Fourth Test at Adelaide, both Lindwall and Miller broke down in the middle of match, leaving Australia two bowlers short.
Lindwall and Miller were unable to play in the Fifth Test, and in their absence, the South Africans were able to score heavily.
Following the Invincibles tour, Lindwall found the pitches in South Africa in 1949 – 50 less to his liking and was dropped for the final Test.
During the return trip to Australia, Lindwall captained Australia for the only time in a Test match against India in Mumbai, after injuries forced out regular captain Ian Johnson.
Lindwall forced his way back into the Test team at 37 years of age in the following season, breaking Clarrie Grimmett's Australian Test record of 216 wickets.
In retirement, Lindwall mentored Test world-record holder Dennis Lillee and also served as a national selector.
At the age of 11, Lindwall and his elder brother Jack were spectators at the Sydney Cricket Ground on the second day of the First Test of the 1932 – 33 Ashes series.
In a match in which Australia fielded seven Test debutants, Lindwall opened the bowling with state team-mate Ernie Toshack.
Having retired from rugby, Lindwall was selected to make his Ashes and home soil debut in the First Test against England in Brisbane.
He bowled only briefly in the first innings, with 0 / 23 before being forced from the field with chickenpox, which prevented him from bowling in the second innings as Australia secured a heavy innings victory .< Ref name =" testlist "/> The illness prevented Lindwall from playing in the Second Test in Sydney in what would have been his first Test in his home town.

Lindwall and tally
In his last Test innings, Lindwall scored ten, which took his tally to 1502 runs, making him the first player to score 1500 runs and take 200 wickets in Test cricket.

Lindwall and 212
The grandson of Swedish and Irish immigrants ,< Ref name =" p212 "> Perry ( 2001 ), Perry, p. 212 .</ ref > Lindwall had a difficult childhood with his mother Catherine dying of pneumonia when he was seven.

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